{"id":24500,"date":"2019-03-05T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24500"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:51:35","slug":"thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolt 3 Becomes USB4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/03\/thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4-as-intels-interconnect-goes-royalty-free\/\">Peter Bright<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/03\/thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4-as-intels-interconnect-goes-royalty-free\/\">\n<p>Fulfilling its <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/05\/intel-to-make-thunderbolt-3-royalty-free-in-bid-to-spur-adoption\/\">2017 promise to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free<\/a>, Intel has <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/intel-takes-steps-enable-thunderbolt-3-everywhere-releases-protocol\/\">given the specification<\/a> for its high-speed interconnect to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that develops the USB specification. The USB-IF has taken the spec and <a href=\"https:\/\/usb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-02\/USB_PG_USB4_DevUpdate_Announcement_FINAL_20190226.pdf\">will use it to form the basis of USB4<\/a>, the next iteration of USB <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/07\/usb-3-2-will-make-your-cables-twice-as-fast-once-youve-bought-new-devices\/\">following USB 3.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/confusing-usb-3-2-branding\/\">Confusing USB 3.2 Branding<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4-update-2019-03-06\">Update (2019-03-06): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/thunderbolt-becomes-usb\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/thunderbolt-becomes-usb\/\">\n<p>Making Thunderbolt royalty-free and not dependent on an Intel controller chip would likely be of considerable interest to a company that may want to build the protocol into a non-Intel platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bright: Fulfilling its 2017 promise to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free, Intel has given the specification for its high-speed interconnect to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that develops the USB specification. The USB-IF has taken the spec and will use it to form the basis of USB4, the next iteration of USB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-03-05T21:27:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"cd40ef17-ffda-4c72-bdc2-ae58905d8ead","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-03-06T20:51:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzUDvF__aTHK9wq5YkF2OrQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90,201,175,1154],"class_list":["post-24500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cable","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24508,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500\/revisions\/24508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}